In brief
Baroness Julia Neuberger is to chair a new Advisory Panel on Judicial Diversity, charged with recommending ways to make the judiciary more representative of the people it serves. The panel will report back to the lord chancellor, Jack Straw, in November 2009.
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National law firm strengthens commercial offering with acquisition of leading immigration practice
